Strong relaxation of the isothermal Euler system to the heat equation (Q1601103)

The barotropic gas dynamics system with damping \[ \rho _t +(\rho u)_x =0, \] \[ (\rho u)_t +(\rho u^2 +p(\rho))_x =-\frac{\rho u}{\varepsilon} \] is considered. The question \(\varepsilon\to 0\) is studied. It is proved that \(\rho\) converges to a solution of the heat equation. Particularly, \[ \int _0 ^{\infty}\int _\mathbb{R}|\rho (t,x)-r(\varepsilon t,x)|dx dt \leq c\varepsilon , \] where \(t_s =r_{xx}\) and \(r(0,x)=\rho (0,x).\) It is assumed that the initial data \(\rho _0\) and \(u_0\) are BV-functions which are \(L^1\)-perturbations of Riemann data.